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Notes

Secondary bolt critical strikes are dependent on the triggering attack; if the triggering attack critically strikes, so will the secondary bolts. Likewise, the secondary bolts will not critically strike if the triggering attack does not critically strike.

The lowest base movement speed in the game is 325. At this speed, Runaan's Hurricane grants 22.75 movement speed.

The movement speed stat only increases flat movement speed, and will not interact with other percentage increases.

While in possession of Runaan's Hurricane, you gain a small floating orb that accompanies you around the battlefield. This orb fires up to two additional missiles, functioning similar to Lulu'sPix, Faerie Companion.

Bolts from Runaan's Hurricane will not increase the frequency of Guinsoo's Rageblade'sPhantom Hit even when hitting 2 additional targets because Phantom Hit is triggered with On-Action Effects (not with On-Hit ones) and the bolts hitting 2 additional targets still counts as only one On-Action Effect.

The passive will be triggered by the auto-attacks of any champions classified as ranged. This is an attribute applied to champions that is independent of in-game context, such as proximity to the target or a specific champion's attack animation.

Shapeshifting champions will trigger the effect while in ranged form only, as they are classified as melee while in melee form and the orb disappears returning when they switch again.

Rengar'sUnseen Predator will not trigger the effect despite his autoattacks having 600/750 range, as Rengar is classified as melee.

Kayle will trigger the effect while Righteous Fury is active despite her attacks having no projectile themselves.

Azir will trigger the effect on both his standard attacks and his command soldier attacks, permitted his target is within his personal attack range (i.e. the item will not trigger while attacking targets using his soldier's extended range).

For effects such as Azir's soldier attacks and Twitch during Spray and Pray, the Runaan Bolts will remain single-targeted. The bolts can potentially damage targets already damaged by the abilities.

Although Gnar is officially melee, and simply is given some extra range by his passive, Hurricane works when he is in Mini Gnar mode, and Ravenous Hydra works while he's Mega Gnar.

The item not only has a maximum range on its bolts from the main target, but also one centering on your champion. (specific ranges PENDING FOR TEST)

Runaan's Hurricane can be affected by blind, as such the secondary bolts will also deal no damage.

This item's damage scales with your attack damage and not the damage dealt by your attack. As such, it will not scale with Sheen, Spinning Axe, or other on-action effects.

It will apply life steal and most on-hit effects from items. The effect does not apply on on-hit effects from abilities which apply on-hit effects. 'On-next-attack' effects will only be applied to the primary target.

The two bolts fired by Runaan's Hurricane (with the normal basic attack in the middle).

Twitch will still trigger the effect while Spray and Pray is active. The two missiles fired are unaffected by the ability, and remain single target, targeted missiles. As such, it is possible for an enemy to be damaged by both Twitch's pass-through attacks and this item while gaining two stacks of Deadly Venom.

Secondary bolts will not interact in anyway with Guinsoo's Rageblade i.e. it does not stack faster and the on hit damage is not applied (PENDING FOR TEST)

Strategy

Compared to the other items building out of Zeal, Runaan's Hurricane offers 3 assets over its siblings:

Improved teamfight damage. 40% per target might not sound like much, but it adds up. Especially when having utility like slows or on-hit effects coupled to your auto-attacks, this item's impact is not to be underestimated.

Improved lifesteal. By effectively increasing your attack damage by 80%, your lifesteal is improved as well. As a result, you can heal up faster on minion waves or monsters and are less prone to Thornmail's reflected damage.

Improved waveclear. While falling short to Statikk Shiv's strong waveclear potential, it still speeds up your waveclear. However, this might very well be an undesired side effect when buying this item, as it makes freezing waves impossible. This is not a problem after the early game, since freezing at this point is less powerful and you want to push and take out towers as fast as possible.

For those three reasons, Runnan's Hurricane is one of the most, if not the most commonly purchased attack speed/crit chance item.

There are still, however, some crit-focused champions which do not purchase it. For example, champions which do not have synergy with its passive (e.g. Vayne, Draven),champions which are focused on casting abilities instead of constantly auto-attacking (e.g. Jhin, Ezreal), or champions which cannot purchase Runaan's Hurricane at all (e.g. Tryndamere, Yasuo, Master Yi).

Some on-hit ranged champions like Kayle and Kog'Maw purchase it because it allows them to apply their on-hit effects in more than one target, even if they are not going to purchase other crit items.

Jinx's Switcheroo! has powerful synergy with the Hurricane. Pow-Pow gains a stack of the attack speed buff for each bolt that hits, and Fishbones' splash damage will stack on all enemies for all three projectiles. If enemies are bunched up, a few well-placed rockets can devastate them.

Trivia

Runaan's Hurricane is named after Devon 'Runaan' Giehl, an Associate Creative Designer at Riot Games.

The orb that fires the 2 bolts and floats around the champion it's equipped to is most likely a reference to a similar power up in the Gradius games.

The item may have been inspired by the alpha/beta item Hurricane, which was also a bow, though Hurricane's Alpha effect is unknown.